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Snaporama extends the life of your tabs

We’ve recently been experimenting with how to use Tab Groups (aka Panorama) more effectively. Today, we’re releasing an add-on called Snaporama. This add-on lets you instantly take a “snapshot” of all the tabs you have open, and later lets you open up a snapshot into a new tab group. This is based off an existing feature in Firefox that lets you bookmark groups of tabs. The workflow is designed to be as simple as possible.

1. You have a set of pages open that you’d like to snapshot for later.

2. You click the camera icon to create a snapshot and give it a name:

3. Later on, you go to your snapshots gallery and open a snapshot into a new Panorama group:

4. That’s all folks! This is a first release and while we’d like to add a few bells and whistles, the priority is on keeping things simple and easy to use. We’d love to hear back from you about what you think, and the source is available on Github.

Ed hacks on all sorts of Content Services projects including Tiles, UP, Interest Dashboard, and Subscribe2Web and previously hacked on Labs projects like Sync, Account Manager and Prospector. He also helps out with neat Firefox features like the Awesome Bar to help users quickly get to what they want. (Or maybe it's that Ed wants to get quickly to news about Mario and Nintendo games, and everyone benefits!)